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the circumstances which I _
am about to detail.
2.
last, one
а
On the 30th of July
Lochu jumped from departing steamer, but failed to reach the wharf. He fell into the sen, then eddying strongly round the
round the piles of the wharf under the combined
action of the tide and the
paddles. Police
steamer's paddles.
Constable Khan Singh jumped
a
into the water, clothed as was, and succeeded in
saving
saving
life.
3.
the drowning man's
In the other case, Police
Constable Besent dingh, on the 21 instant, jumped into the Tytam Reservoir, and saved the life of a sick coolie, who, while gathering herbs on the hill side, had fallen into water of a depth of 45 feet, and would L'inevitably
have
perished but For Besent Singh's gallantry.
he
4.
MrBelilios, a wealthy
Merchant in this Colony, has
placed